a glaswegian asks, “I am assuming that flow is something more than just the graceful transition from pattern to pattern right?”

and I answered:
for me, flow in poi is the feeling of oneness with the poi’s weight, momentum and movement.  you can tell when you catch the wave of moving exactly in time with the poi (and the music, and your breath) so it all moves together as one.  like harmonizing with someone else’s voice or being a cog in a well oiled machine.  I’m not really making any decisions about what move to do as each movement is obviously implied by the previous.  time flies, slows and doesn’t exist.  the spinning and the moment are so compelling that everything else fades away.  it looks as good as it feels no matter what move or transition I’m doing.

Firedrums 2010 - Yuta & Thomas Nevisoul play tunnel poi.
this is not choreographed at all. 

One of the best fire spin videos in which I’ve ever taken part.  
Nick Woolsey, @AlienJon, Baz and @BURNINGdAN rock the Costa Rica casbah
music by Reza Moosavi and shot/edited by Matt Boyd. 
Thanks to all involved, this was heaps of fun and I’m proud of the result. 
(and I was there when you met)

alienjon:

The long anticipated fire poi footage from my fateful meeting with Nick Woolsey in Costa Rica.

I’m teaching Flow Arts classes coming up in November (our website explains Flow Arts) at Flow Temple in Hollywood. I’m SO excited about it. I LOVE teaching this stuff.

I LOVE the reactions I get from students… Handrew, a virtuoso pianist who’s been playing since age 5 and has a Masters degree in piano told me after taking my class for a month “Flow Arts has changed the way that I practice piano in such a positive way — it changes the way I look at my own ‘limitations.’” I am/was so proud of how Handrew rocked the class on many fronts. I totally get off on having such a profound effect.

I am still shaking with awesome that the big LA Times said about my little school, “Flow Temple is the fast track to Jedi status.”

I’ve been hard at play designing this new version of classes and I can’t hardly wait to get started. Flow Temple